For that effort, Valdary was attacked by the usual suspects like Max Blumenthal, as being an Israel Lobby paid stooge. As Lori Lowenthal Marcus reports, the event Valdaray promoted took place with great success in late March, attended by over 400 pro-Israel students.

Is race behind the attacks on Valdary? Yes, says an op-ed column in The NY Post by Anthony Hardy Williams, the Democratic whip in the Pennsylvania state Senate, whose father worked with Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. and broke the color barrier at Penn State, The racism of the Israel-bashers:

The Boycott, Divest and Sanction movement against Israel is often seen as progressive — so it’s astounding to see its supporters turn to racism.

The latest target: Chloé Simone Valdary, an African-American undergraduate at the University of New Orleans and founder of the Allies of Israel Association.

Valdary recently wrote an article criticizing the Jewish Museum’s decision to invite Judith Butler, a University of California, Berkeley professor and outspoken BDS supporter to speak — an invitation Butler at first accepted, then declined.

BDS supporters’ response to Valdary was vile. Activist Zaid Jilani tweeted, “Non-jew [Chloé Valdary] smears famous Jewish academic as ally of Hitler,” then mocked her outspoken stand against anti-Semitism. (Jilani, by the way, was ousted from a liberal think tank last year for use of what his boss called “terrible anti-Semitic language.”)

Then there was Max Blumenthal, a former writer for the pro-Hezbollah Al Akhbar newspaper. (The Nation found Blumenthal’s recent book notable for its “equation of Israel with Nazis.”) He tweeted that Valdary is “beyond sickening” and “irrationally hateful” — and a “non-Jew” who represents “the future of Zionism.” ….

I’ve seen this too many times before: a supposed “progressive” stepping on the backs of African-Americans, then walking away as if the pain he’s inflicted is different from that caused by any other racist. Why should such hate speech go unchallenged, just because it’s cloaked as criticism of Israel?

As a civil-rights activist and leader in the African-American community, I’m exceptionally disturbed to discover that the response to this attack on Valdary has been subdued, almost nonexistent.

There is a reason the BDS movement goes after non-white supporters of Israel with a particular vengeance, including not just blacks but also Native Americans.

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Apart from Jews, Blacks, especially, should find standing with BDS an untenable proposition because the enslavement of blacks is on going in Muslim lands today, Mauretania, example. Where did the Sudanese escapees from Islamic genocide run? It wasn’t to the surrounding Islamic territories. They deemed refuge in Israel and the promise of freedom that cam with it was worth the hazard of crossing the desert to get there. Even then, they were mistreated at the hands of the Muslims in Egypt.

When the word in Arabic for ‘black’ is the same as that for ‘slave’; when the people who allied themselves with Hitler during WWII were Muslims who were aggressively pushing the “faster, please!” Angle on the genocide of the Jews, it’s rather difficult to treat with anything but contempt people like “Activist Zaid Jilani [who] tweeted, “Non-jew [Chloé Valdary] smears famous Jewish academic as ally of Hitler”.

Judith Butler lay down with dogs, so, of course, she got up with fleas. It doesn’t matter if she is Jewish. She sided with a people who partnered with Hitler, learned from him, perpetuate his ideals in their countries, march and salute as his storm troopers did, and have as part of their covenant the Final Solution. Therefore, she is an ally of Hitler.

Zaid Jilani, like the Democrats, want blacks to know their place. His tweet shows that that place is not criticizing what BDS nuts do.

Whenever I read about these BDS “events” I cannot help but think of the famous photo from April 1, 1933 with the storm trooper thugs outside a Jewish owned department store (“Nathan Israel’s Department Store”) in Berlin with their placards “Germans protect yourselves, do not buy from Jews”.

Anthony Hardy Williams is a black Democrat that is smart enough to recognize that the BDS movement is as big a disaster for the Democrats as the David Duke candidacy for US President was for Republicans. Good for him.